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[AoC] Age of Conan: Now F2P and stuff

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Ok, so new computer is go and I am currently in the process of downloading this game. We shall see how long it lasts.

Edit: I noticed when I tried to "reactivate" my account that there are no free options, just different payment types. My account shows as being cancelled, so is there some special way of getting it active again, or does 'cancelled' equate to 'free account'?

Edit the 2nd: Ahh my account does list as 'playable' so I guess that answers that. I'll know for sure if this download ever completes.

OK...so I decided to give this a try because Nak said he was playing. A couple questions:

Is it normal to have problems with lag/delays in the interface? I just got to Tortage and the beach was fine, but now most fights seem to hang and I'm getting rubber-banding a lot...which seems strange since I have a solid connection, but I just thought I'd ask.

So I got in and checked my account at last, and it seems the game only kept those characters I had gotten out of Tortuga. I was kinda disappointed by this only because I had hoped to still have some characters from classes that are now locked. Also, one of my characters has a long string of numbers after his name... do I get some kinda free name change or would I have to walk around like that unless I pay up?

The choices for 'free' are pretty limited, which is understandable, but still annoying. Thinking about just buying a month for a test run, which is what I did for WoW not long ago, only to realize that the game is still boring.

See I wanted to test this out F2P so I installed it and got it all downloaded, logged in, and none of my characters existed anymore. Meaning my assassin was gone, and lo' and behold, I'm no longer ALLOWED to roll an assassin. So I uninstalled and called it a day.

Yeah that's kinda what broke my will to play as well... finding that most of my characters had been wiped. I can understand why, seeing as they were relatively low level and I hadn't played in forever, but... yeah. All that time spent downloading and such, and I never got past the char select screen.

So I've been playing with from friends for a while, all of us killing time until TOR, running around in paleo-china. Started on the long quest chain after passing the great wall, following leads from zone to zone, facing down giant golem messengers and slowly being drawn into this plotline that even though I had never run it, seemed eerily familiar. Quest by quest on the chain it got darker, creepier, until I was seeking down the journals of a tortured madman who lived in a house he built of bones, and gazing into the twisted visage of a people whose very eyes had meted away in a horrible maze of corrupted skin where their face used to be. Always with the nagging sensation that I KNEW this place, this story, the constant deja vu that dogged my every step. Sent by my quest log into the crater of black stones that pulsed with a sickening pinkish glow reminiscent of flesh, the moans of the faceless corrupted following my hoofbeats, finally the quest log updated with a new task, the title of which was a beacon, a flare of realization. I DID know this story, I HAD seen it before, from the shuffling crater-spawn to the sickness and madness that seeped through the country side. For the title of my new quest was the same as a H.P. Lovecraft story I had read a few years back, The Color Out of Space.

I played AOC at launch, and I even completed the slow and painful grind to 80 it was at the time (on Cimmeria no less, the PvP-RP server where inattention was death.) The game really has come a long way since then. They added whole new zones to bridge the places where level gaps were before, and a crap ton of end game content. If you have a subscription that is. If you are FtP, you're screwed, as most of the interesting zones and almost all of the dungeons are locked to you. And bugs... oh the bugs. And the memory leak, stil there, will crash my computer if I play for longer than two hours.

Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.

Did you not read any of the restrictions beforehand? As for none of your characters being there... anything that wasn't out of Tortage was wiped for a time even before Unchained started.

No, I didn't, because I saw it was F2P and wanted to go back to play my already existing character. And was tortage kind of the newbyish area before you got to travel into the wide expanses of the rest of the world and get mass murdered? If so, I was out of Tortage. I may, if inclined to do so later, redownload it and play around with a boring old barbarian, if I read up on it and see I can somehow earn credits in game to unlock other stuff like I did in DDO. Not really inclined to care at this point since I still have guild wars trilogy + eotn to play with courtesy of steam.